From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family
following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing
American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The women of the
Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch Rudy the glue that held them
all together everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly the younger of the two Cohen
sisters runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of
technology. Her sister Nancy gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman
with a shadowy lifestyle while their mother Frieda hurls herself into a boozy troubled
existence in Miami trying to forget the past even as it haunts her. But each woman must learn
in her own way that running from the past can’t save you—and they must make life-altering
decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need for themselves to move
forward. Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years A Reason to See You Again takes the
reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood the American workforce the tech industry
the self-help movement inherited trauma the ever-evolving ways we communicate with one
another and the many unexpected forms that love can take.
